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TIL that residents of Churchill, Canada leave their cars unlocked to offer an escape for pedestrians who might encounter Polar Bears on Main Street.

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M7gl8 TIL of Bikini Atoll, a coral reef in the Marshall Islands which served as a nuclear test site for the US in WWII, and after which the bikini swimsuit and Spongebob's Bikini Bottom are named.
1aYE4 TIL that Ryanair once considered charging passengers for using the bathroom on the plane
odMo TIL that on September 10, 2001, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon had wasted or misplaced up to $2.3 trillion, or $8,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country, and promised to go after the unchecked Pentagon bureaucracy
byap TIL that humans can breath liquid. 1989 human trials in Philadelphia administered total liquid ventilation to near-death infants, who improved remarkably and showed that their lungs could comply to the liquid.
E1jPp TIL men and women used to compete against each other in skeet shooting at the Olympics, until a woman won in 1992. Since then, the event has been split by gender.